Acclaimed Music

**Top Bebop Albums**
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Subgenre(s)	Other Genre(s)	Year
1	331	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	Hard Bop		1960
2	383	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	Hard Bop		1957
3	394	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	Post-Bop		1959
4	518	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music (Volume One)			1951
5	531	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	Hard Bop		1957
6	642	Oliver Nelson	The Blues and the Abstract Truth	Hard Bop		1961
7	683	The Quintet	Jazz at Massey Hall/The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever			1953
8	686	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	Post-Bop	Modal Jazz	1961
9	698	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	Hard Bop		1958
10	714	John Coltrane	Blue Train	Hard Bop		1958
11	737	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin']	Hard Bop		1959
12	760	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	Post-Bop		1966
13	857	Wes Montgomery	The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	Hard Bop		1960
14	860	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	Hard Bop		1964
15	889	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Hard Bop		1965
16	898	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell			1952
17	906	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	Post-Bop		1956
18	1047	Charles Mingus	Blues and Roots	Post-Bop		1960
19	1084	Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	Hard Bop		1961
20	1141	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2			1952
21	1149	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Hard Bop		1954
22	1163	Sonny Rollins	The Bridge	Hard Bop		1962
23	1165	Miles Davis	Milestones	Hard Bop		1958
24	1235	Sonny Rollins	Way Out West	Hard Bop		1957
25	1249	John Coltrane	Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard	Hard Bop	Modal Jazz	1962
26	1250	Sonny Rollins	A Night at the "Village Vanguard"	Hard Bop		1958
27	1343	Miles Davis	Nefertiti	Post-Bop	Modal Jazz	1968
28	1356	Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris	Hard Bop		1963
29	1359	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	Hard Bop		1954
30	1407	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	Hard Bop		1960
31	1408	Dexter Gordon	Go	Hard Bop		1962
32	1462	Miles Davis	Round About Midnight	Hard Bop		1957
33	1466	Miles Davis	Miles Smiles	Post-Bop	Modal Jazz	1967
34	1572	Charles Mingus	Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods	Post-Bop		1962
35	1605	Chick Corea	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs	Post-Bop		1968
36	1633	Thelonious Monk	Monk's Music	Hard Bop		1958
37	1679	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	Post-Bop		1967
38	1688	Sun Ra	Jazz in Silhouette	Post-Bop		1958
39	1691	Sonny Clark	Cool Struttin'	Hard Bop		1958
40	1785	Charles Mingus	Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus	Post-Bop		1964
41	1863	Wayne Shorter	Juju		Modal Jazz	1965
42	1867	Horace Silver	Horace Silver Quintet (Vol. 1 & 2)/Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers	Hard Bop		1955
43	1876	Miles Davis	Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	Hard Bop		1957
44	1877	Miles Davis	Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	Hard Bop		1961
45	1881	Jackie McLean	Let Freedom Ring	Post-Bop		1962
46	1907	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High			1955
47	1930	J. J. Johnson	With Clifford Brown/The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1			1953
48	1934	Sonny Rollins	Freedom Suite	Hard Bop		1958
49	1935	Herbie Hancock	Takin' Off	Hard Bop, Post-Bop	Modal Jazz	1962
50	1939	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	The Inflated Tear	Post-Bop		1968
51	1954	Benny Carter	Further Definitions		Swing	1962
52	1977	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Rip, Rig and Panic	Post-Bop		1965
53	1984	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	Bird & Diz			1952
54	2000	Lee Morgan	Search for the New Land	Post-Bop		1966
55	2023	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Study in Brown	Hard Bop		1955
56	2029	Ornette Coleman	Something Else!!!!	Hard Bop		1958
57	2039	Joe Henderson	Page One	Hard Bop		1963
58	2072	Miles Davis	Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet	Hard Bop		1958
59	2081	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness	Hard Bop		1956
60	2087	Herbie Hancock	Empyrean Isles	Hard Bop		1964
61	2125	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 2	Hard Bop		1954
62	2128	Wes Montgomery	Full House: Recorded 'Live' at Tsubo - Berkeley, California	Hard Bop		1962
63	2186	Grant Green	Idle Moments	Hard Bop		1965
64	2242	Eric Dolphy	At the Five Spot, Vol. 1	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1961
65	2310	Cannonball Adderley	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! - Live at 'The Club'	Hard Bop	Soul Jazz	1967
66	2311	Wynton Kelly Trio & Wes Montgomery	Smokin' at the Half Note	Hard Bop		1965
67	2335	Larry Young	Unity	Post-Bop		1966
68	2355	Thelonious Monk	Monk's Dream	Hard Bop		1963
69	2409	Wynton Kelly	Kelly Blue	Hard Bop		1959
70	2443	Thelonious Monk	Thelonious Monk Trio	Hard Bop		1953
71	2444	Joe Henderson	Inner Urge	Hard Bop		1966
72	2530	Duke Ellington and John Coltrane	Duke Ellington and John Coltrane	Hard Bop		1963
73	2658	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	A Night in Tunisia	Hard Bop		1961
74	2681	Miles Davis	E.S.P.	Post-Bop		1965
75	2698	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes (from the Underground)	Post-Bop		1985
76	2725	Freddie Hubbard	Hub-Tones	Hard Bop		1962
77	2728	John McLaughlin	Extrapolation	Post-Bop		1969
78	2774	Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away	Hard Bop		1959
79	2814	John Coltrane	Crescent	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1964
80	2818	Kenny Burrell	Midnight Blue	Hard Bop		1963
81	2834	John Coltrane	Africa/Brass	Hard Bop, Post-Bop	Modal Jazz	1961
82	2853	Steve Lacy	Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk	Post-Bop		1959
83	2857	Charles Mingus	Oh Yeah	Post-Bop		1962
84	2884	Lee Morgan	Cornbread	Hard Bop		1967
85	2888	John Coltrane	Live at Birdland	Post-Bop		1964
86	2889	Wayne Shorter	Adam's Apple	Hard Bop, Post-Bop		1967
87	2900	Booker Little	Out Front	Hard Bop		1961
88	2906	John Coltrane	Coltrane Plays the Blues	Hard Bop		1962
89	2912	Art Blakey	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk	Hard Bop		1958
90	2938	Thelonious Monk	Thelonious Himself	Hard Bop		1957
91	2947	Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt	For Musicians Only			1956
92	2950	Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster	Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones	Post-Bop		1959
Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Charles Mingus	Mingus at Antibes	Post-Bop		1976
		Miles Davis	My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert	Post-Bop		1965
		Miles Davis	Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	Hard Bop		1959
		Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt	Sonny Side Up			1958
		Clifford Brown & Max Roach	At Basin Street	Hard Bop		1956
		Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette	Standards Live	Post-Bop		1986
		Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery	Bags Meets Wes!	Hard Bop		1962
		John Coltrane	Soultrane/John Coltrane 2-LP	Hard Bop		1958
		Dizzy Gillespie	At Newport		Big Band	1958
		Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay	Post-Bop	Soul Jazz	1970
		Phineas Newborn Jr.	A World of Piano!	Hard Bop		1961
		Bobby Timmons	This Here Is Bobby Timmons	Hard Bop	Soul Jazz	1960
		Johnny Griffin	A Blowin' Session	Hard Bop		1957
		McCoy Tyner	Sahara	Post-Bop		1972
		Thelonious Monk	Misterioso	Post-Bop		1958
		Sun Ra and The Arkestra	Sound of Joy	Post-Bop		1968
		Roy Haynes	Out of the Afternoon	Post-Bop		1962
		Milt Jackson and John Coltrane	Bags & Trane		Cool Jazz	1961
		Sonny Rollins	East Broadway Run Down	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1966
		Eric Dolphy with Booker Little	Far Cry	Post-Bop		1962
		Bill Evans	Conversations with Myself	Post-Bop		1963
		Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Free for All	Hard Bop		1965
		Eric Dolphy	Out There	Post-Bop		1960
		Eric Dolphy	Outward Bound	Hard Bop		1960
		Art Blakey	The Jazz Messengers	Hard Bop		1956
		Joe Henderson	Mode for Joe	Hard Bop		1966
		Miles Davis	In Person Friday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco Vol. 1	Hard Bop		1961
		Yusef Lateef	Live at Pep's	Hard Bop		1964
		Wynton Marsalis	Live at Blues Alley	Hard Bop		1988
		Thelonious Monk	The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall	Hard Bop		1959
		Thelonious Monk	Thelonious in Action: Recorded at the Five Spot Cafe, New York City	Hard Bop		1958
		Gary Burton	Duster	Post-Bop		1967
		Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson	Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House	Hard Bop		1958
		Charles Mingus	Changes One	Post-Bop		1975
		Miles Davis & John Coltrane	Live in Stockholm 1960	Hard Bop		1985
		Miles Davis	Filles de Kilimanjaro	Post-Bop		1969
		Coleman Hawkins	The Hawk Flies High			1957
		Phil Woods	Musique du Bois	Hard Bop		1974
		Freddie Hubbard	Open Sesame	Hard Bop		1960
		Eric Dolphy	Iron Man	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1969
		Clifford Brown	Clifford Brown with Strings	Hard Bop		1955
		Jackie McLean	One Step Beyond	Post-Bop		1963
		Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith	Post-Bop		1967
		Sonny Rollins	Plus 4	Hard Bop		1956
		Hampton Hawes	This Is Hampton Hawes: Vol. 2, The Trio	Hard Bop		1956
		Max Roach	Max Roach + 4	Hard Bop		1956
		Cecil Taylor	Jazz Advance	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1956
		Grant Green	Born to Be Blue	Hard Bop	Cool Jazz	1985
		Jackie McLean	Destination... Out!	Post-Bop		1964
		Freddie Hubbard	Ready for Freddie	Hard Bop		1961
		Tina Brooks	True Blue	Hard Bop		1960
		Cannonball Adderley	In San Francisco	Hard Bop		1959
		John Coltrane	Coltrane Jazz	Hard Bop		1961
		Art Blakey	Ugetsu/Thermo	Hard Bop		1963
		Charles Mingus	Town Hall Concert	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1964
		Kenny Dorham	Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia	Hard Bop		1956
		Charles Mingus	The Great Concert of Charles Mingus	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1970
		Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane	Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall	Hard Bop		2005
		John Coltrane	Coltrane's Sound	Hard Bop		1964
		Art Farmer	Farmer's Market	Hard Bop		1958
		Sonny Rollins	Work Time	Hard Bop		1956
		Charles Mingus	The Clown	Post-Bop		1957
		Blue Mitchell	The Thing to Do	Hard Bop		1964
		Ike Quebec	Blue and Sentimental	Hard Bop		1961
		Dizzy Gillespie	Duets/Dizzy, Rollins & Stitt			1958
		Freddie Hubbard	Goin' Up	Hard Bop		1961
		Rahsaan Roland Kirk	We Free Kings	Hard Bop, Post-Bop		1962
		Art Blakey	Mosaic	Hard Bop		1961
		McCoy Tyner	Trident	Post-Bop		1975
		Miles Davis	Miles Davis All Star Sextet/Walkin'	Hard Bop		1955
		Sonny Rollins	Newk's Time	Hard Bop		1958
		John Coltrane	Coltrane	Post-Bop	Modal Jazz	1962
		Sun Ra Arkestra	Sunrise in Different Dimensions	Post-Bop	Free Jazz	1981
		Bobby Hutcherson	Dialogue	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal Jazz	1965
		Sun Ra and His Arkestra	Super-Sonic Jazz	Post-Bop		1957
		Thelonious Monk	Live at the It Club	Hard Bop		1982
		Freddie Hubbard	Breaking Point!	Hard Bop		1964
		Jackie McLean	Bluesnik	Hard Bop		1961
		John Coltrane	Afro Blue Impressions	Hard Bop		1977
		Booker Ervin	The Freedom Book	Post-Bop		1964
		Charles Mingus	Mingus Dynasty	Post-Bop		1960
		Dexter Gordon	Doin' Allright	Hard Bop		1961
		Krzysztof Komeda	Astigmatic	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1966
		Thelonious Monk	At the Blackhawk	Hard Bop		1960
		Tina Brooks	Back to the Tracks	Hard Bop		1985
		Andrew Hill	Judgment!	Post-Bop		1964
		Herbie Hancock	V.S.O.P	Post-Bop	Jazz Fusion	1976
		Grant Green	Green Street	Hard Bop		1961
		Phineas Newborn Jr.	The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr.	Hard Bop		1963
		Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins	Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins	Hard Bop		1957
		Ornette Coleman	Tomorrow Is the Question!	Hard Bop		1959
		Sam Rivers	Contours	Post-Bop	Avant-Garde Jazz	1965
		Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra	Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus/Interstellar Low Ways	Post-Bop		1965
		Andrew Hill	Black Fire	Post-Bop		1964
		Sam Rivers	Fuchsia Swing Song	Hard Bop		1965
		Art Blakey	At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 2	Hard Bop		1959
		Yusef Lateef	Eastern Sounds	Hard Bop		1961
		Herbie Hancock	V.S.O.P. - The Quintet	Post-Bop		1977
		Lee Morgan	The Cooker	Hard Bop		1958
		Vijay Iyer Sextet	Far from Over	Post-Bop		2017
		John Coltrane	Newport '63	Post-Bop		1993